Connecting with other non profits Veronica Ciarcia Valeria Navarrete Paul Oblitas Jordan Cacho Jose Miranda Jerome Bethune Gabriela Solis Yanetsis Echevarria Joseph Ebneth Executive Summary The Judith Squillante Foundation was created by Jason and Mark Squillante in dedication to their mother, Judith Squillante, who in her lifetime did a lot in the charitable work with community children. The Foundation’s aim is to help underprivileged children succeed academically, while also preparing them for life. Our group of 9 was chosen to assist the Judith Squillante Foundation with connecting to other non-profit organizations. With that objective, our group’s mission for this project is to gather information on how similar non-profits work their operations and also gather some information on their struggles in order to lower the learning curve for Jason and Mark. An ultimate goal of our group is to help Jason Squillante find partnerships with organizations that are in line with his foundation’s strategic priorities and mission statement. Establishing partnerships with other non-profits will ensure a sharing of resources, goods and services, and joint funding. The main issue we encountered while completing this project was getting in touch with other non-profits. We conducted research and found several non-profits that had mission statements and values similar to that of the Judith Squillante Foundation. A lot of the foundations we found targeted underprivileged children and their education. We began contacting them through email and phone in hopes of collaborating with them. As time went by our emails and calls were not returned, we began to realize that the process was going to be a lot harder than we thought. We did get in touch with representatives of three foundations: The Education Effect, the Posse Foundation and the Miami Children’s Initiative. We were able to ask them questions regarding their foundation and how it works and the steps they took to find partnerships in the past. Through some failed attempts to contact non-profits we already had an idea that it was not easy, that notion was only confirmed when we did speak to some organizations. Further we were able to gain insight as to how difficult the process of establishing a non-profit is. Although we did not get to finalize any partnerships for the Judith Squillante Foundation we were able to uncover some details that will hopefully facilitate Jason Squillante’s search for partnerships. A solution that we believe will alleviate the process is using social media to network and make connections. Social media is undoubtedly the most popular method of communication in today’s day. We believe the Judith Squillante Foundation should establish a stronger social media presence, whether it be through Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, or all. By expanding their social media presence the Judith Squillante Foundation will become more publicly known as well as more appealing for future par.

1. Connecting with other non profits
Veronica Ciarcia
Valeria Navarrete
Paul Oblitas
Jordan Cacho
Jose Miranda
Jerome Bethune
Gabriela Solis
Yanetsis Echevarria
Joseph Ebneth
Executive Summary
The Judith Squillante Foundation was created by Jason and
Mark Squillante in dedication to their mother, Judith Squillante,
who in her lifetime did a lot in the charitable work with
community children. The Foundation’s aim is to help
underprivileged children succeed academically, while also
preparing them for life. Our group of 9 was chosen to assist the
Judith Squillante Foundation with connecting to other non-
profit organizations. With that objective, our group’s mission
for this project is to gather information on how similar non-
profits work their operations and also gather some information
on their struggles in order to lower the learning curve for Jason
and Mark. An ultimate goal of our group is to help Jason
Squillante find partnerships with organizations that are in line
with his foundation’s strategic priorities and mission statement.
Establishing partnerships with other non-profits will ensure a
sharing of resources, goods and services, and joint funding.

2. The main issue we encountered while completing this project
was getting in touch with other non-profits. We conducted
research and found several non-profits that had mission
statements and values similar to that of the Judith Squillante
Foundation. A lot of the foundations we found targeted
underprivileged children and their education. We began
contacting them through email and phone in hopes of
collaborating with them. As time went by our emails and calls
were not returned, we began to realize that the process was
going to be a lot harder than we thought.
We did get in touch with representatives of three foundations:
The Education Effect, the Posse Foundation and the Miami
Children’s Initiative. We were able to ask them questions
regarding their foundation and how it works and the steps they
took to find partnerships in the past. Through some failed
attempts to contact non-profits we already had an idea that it
was not easy, that notion was only confirmed when we did
speak to some organizations. Further we were able to gain
insight as to how difficult the process of establishing a non-
profit is. Although we did not get to finalize any partnerships
for the Judith Squillante Foundation we were able to uncover
some details that will hopefully facilitate Jason Squillante’s
search for partnerships.
A solution that we believe will alleviate the process is using
social media to network and make connections. Social media is
undoubtedly the most popular method of communication in
today’s day. We believe the Judith Squillante Foundation should
establish a stronger social media presence, whether it be
through Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, or all. By
expanding their social media presence the Judith Squillante
Foundation will become more publicly known as well as more
appealing for future partnerships.
Another solution that we believe will help Jason Squillante
establish a partnership is attending events held by non-profits in
order to network with them. Non-profits hold a lot of events
such as galas or dinners to advertise their foundation, to

3. celebrate a particular milestone, to collect donations or to
simply network with other foundations. For example Take Stock
in Children, a non-profit that offers underprivileged students
scholarships to further their education, will be holding their
20th anniversary celebration in March of 2015. This event
would be a great networking opportunity for the Judith
Squillante Foundation.
Our mission was to find non-profits for the Judith Squillante
Foundation to partner with. We found the process to be very
challenging and difficult. It is definitely a process that requires
a lot of time and effort. However, we were able to contact Jason
to Donnie Hale of The Education Effect. Donnie was very
enthusiastic to meet Jason and learn about ways in which the
two organizations could mutually help each other. Further, we
were able to get in contact with three foundations and they were
able to answer some questions we had. Although we were not
able to “finalize” a partnership for Jason, we were able to
provide him some leads that he can use in the future.
Additionally we were able to provide alternatives, such as using
social media, to help the Judith Squillante Foundation set up
future partnerships. Although the process of establishes
collaboration is difficult it is very rewarding once
accomplished.
Statement of Need
Two of The Judith Squillante Foundation needs are to find
a potential partnership with another non-profit organization, and
if not, to gain as much information from similar non-profits in
order to help facilitate The Judith Squillante Foundation in its
start-up phase. We as a group found that the former was a very
difficult process for a number of reasons. After countless emails
of denial to non-profits we as a group had to ask ourselves,
“Why are non-profits reluctant to partner with The Judith
Squillante Foundation”?
Donnie Hale, Director of the Education Effect at Booker T.
Washington gave us some insight on why this might be. “When

4. a start-up foundation tries to partner with one that has been
around, then they can get arrogant, think they know it all, and
may not listen to what the other will have to bring to the table,”
said Hale.
After doing some additional research, it became clear that
companies in general are partnering at an all-time low. One of
the main reasons is that the economy is not doing well as of
late. Non-profits do not want to risk partnership with someone
and create even more vulnerability in their environment than
there already is in a struggling economy. If the partnership does
not go as planned it could doom a non-profit financially. A
solution to this would be to try to talk to the non-profit and try
to form a limited liability partnership so that they would not be
held accountable if the partnership did not pan out the way that
it was supposed to. Another reason that non-profits are reluctant
to do partnerships is the contract involved. If the contract is
violated in anyway, a lawsuit can take place and courts can get
involved. Partnerships would never want to go through that
process as it is time consuming and expensive. All of this aside
our group decided that if we could not form a partnership just
through email, let’s try to get them to at least sit with us and
ask them questions about the tasks and struggles of being a
foundation and then perhaps we could form a partnership if they
are interested.
The first step as a group is that we have to determine what
population we want to target. We want to interview a non-profit
organization that helps underprivileged children achieve their
academic goals and set them on the right path for success. We
would not target organizations such as just normal afterschool
programs. We want to partner with a non-profit that helps
schools that have a lower grade than a “C”. Nowadays it is
really hard for a school to achieve the grade of “F” because if a
school continues to receive an “F” grade, then the school will
be shut down. Next we have to determine what the term
“underprivileged” means. Underprivileged is not a kid who
does not want to learn and is not doing well in school due to

5. their own decisions. We want to target kids that want to achieve
success but are not given the opportunity due to their situation
outside of school. An example of this would be a student who
wants to study but cannot because their household is very
unstable.
Next we have to research statistics to prove that non-profit
organizations that help underprivileged children can be
successful. Our program would be considered an extracurricular
activity due to it taking place during after school hours.
According to the National Center for Education Statistics,
“participating in extracurricular activities help improve students
in a board number of ways. Fifty percent of students never
skipped classes that participated in extracurricular activities
verses forty two percent for non-participants. Also thirty
percent of students have a GPA of 3.0 or higher if they
participate in extracurricular activities.” A shocking ten percent
only have a GPA of 3.0 or higher if they don’t participate.
Another critical statistic is that if a student is involved in
extracurricular activity then they have a 68 percent chance of
getting a bachelor’s degree or higher verses 48 percent if they
do not. This is a huge difference in percentage and can make a
significant impact on a kid’s life if they decide to participate in
after school activities.
Just these statistics alone shows promise for the
stakeholders. If kids see these statistics it can motivate them to
buy into the program because of the correlation to increase their
chance to be successful. With all the kids buying into the
program, the foundation will flourish and stakeholders will be
rewarded. Also, the target population of underprivileged
children will be rewarded because they are the key component
to the entire process. They will enhance their education skill
giving them a better opportunity to succeed and even perhaps
guarantee an admission to a university. If they do not succeed,
then the foundation does not succeed.
Now, we have to find a non-profit organization that sees
the same type of views as The Judith Squillante Foundation. We

6. need to receive insight and knowledge from them to learn about
the successes and struggles they have gone through in growing
as a foundation. After receiving some insight from them, if both
parties feel mutual about one another, then they will be asked if
they would like to form a partnership with The Judith Squillante
Foundation. If they politely decline, then at the least The Judith
Squillante Foundation gained knowledge from the struggles they
have endured in coming up as a foundation so that Jason does
not make the same mistakes as they did.
Project Description
Mission Statement
Our group’s mission is to potentially establish relationships
with similar non-profit organizations/foundations in order to
gain opportunities to raise funds and to receive goods and
services for “The Judith Squillante Foundation”. With another
foundation supporting The Judith Squillante Foundation, it will
then be able to provide assistance and support to unprivileged
kids in Miami Dade County to succeed academically, complete
their graduation, and allow them to start their professional and
leadership careers.
Objectives
· To receive information from similar non–profits on their
operations, strategies, struggles and successes to solidify as a
recognized community foundation
· To find opportunities for underprivileged/talented kids to
complete their educational goals and graduate.
· To receive scholarship funds for underprivileged children who
are pursuing higher education.
· To receive financial support from organizations that will work
on behalf the education of unprivileged kids and spread its
mission throughout.
· To make mergers and collaborations with different
organizations that will help “The Judith Squillante Foundation”
in the achievement of its goals.
· To receive collaboration from different leading universities to

7. provide quality educational opportunities to the students of the
underprivileged regions of Miami Dade County.
· To sparkle a focus on splendid understudies and support the
quest for scholarly greatness at all levels of training.
· To empower expanded backing from associations that wish to
support grants for extraordinary educational ability.
Methods
As mentioned before, our main objective was to connect with
other foundations. Foundations working together give
unprivileged children more options to study and help for a
better future. We aimed to obtain a partnership for The Judith
Squillante Foundation, to work together in agreement to achieve
the same purpose and benefits. Our primary method of this was
through email communication. We began with researching south
Florida non-profits with similar purposes. Once, finding viable
organizations to work with, we sent emails introducing purpose,
our goals, and ourselves. This method was not too successful.
After some communication and guidance from Jason about this
topic, he recommended that we not be so forward and specific in
our emails. Jason mentioned that the first thing we want is a
response from the other organizations, and once we get a
response we can begin to mention our objectives and purpose.
Through this advice we emailed other organizations with more
vague emails, and with this method we indeed had more
success. It was through this method that we were finally able to
communicate with Donnie Hale Jr., Director of The Education
Effect at Booker T. Washington High School. He and Jason are
now in communications with a mutual interest in a potential
partnership.
Another successful method that the group had was
communication with personal acquaintances that had a part with
similar south Florida non-profits. One member of the group has
an acquaintance from his high school days that is now the Chief
Executive Assistant at The Miami Children’s Initiative and a
Posse Scholarship scholar. Scarlett Montenegro is her name and

8. through the method of face-to-face interview with her we were
able to gather valuable information to help Jason Squillante
with the facets of attracting children, motivating children,
tutoring and potential scholarships for the children of The
Judith Squillante Foundation. With the gathered information
about the Posse Scholarship we decided to research more
scholarship programs that offer similar opportunities.
Scholarships
Scholarships are grant or payment made to support a student's
education, awarded on the basis of academic or other
achievement. Scholarships are extremely beneficial to students
graduating from high school and entering college especially
students who need financial support. The Judith Squillante
Foundation, a non-profit established to help underprivileged
students succeed academically, would greatly benefit from
knowing the different scholarships that are available. There are
multiple types of scholarships for Florida students some of
which include need based scholarships, merit based
scholarships, scholarships for outstanding leadership or
involvement in extracurricular activities, and scholarships that
target a specific field of study. Below is a list of several
different scholarships that the students from the Judith
Squillante Foundation could apply for.
1. Salute to Education Scholarship: Salute to Education, Inc.,
established in 1994, is a non-profit organization funded through
dealership contributions and corporate support from Ford Motor
Company. This scholarship is based on merit and high school
involvement and students must have a 3.0 GPA or higher in
order to be considered. Factors such as financial need,
community involvement, demonstrated leadership, and quality
of character will also be taken into consideration. The
scholarship is open to all Florida high school students.
2. Florida First Generation Matching Grant: It isa need-based
grant program available to degree-seeking, resident,
undergraduate students who demonstrate substantial financial

9. need, are enrolled in eligible participating post-secondary
institutions, and whose parents have not earned baccalaureate or
higher degrees. This scholarship is need based and is awarded to
first generation students.
3. William Boyd Florida Residents Access Grant: Program
provides tuition assistance to Florida undergraduate students
attending an eligible private, non-profit Florida college or
university. This scholarship is need based and can be renewed
yearly as long as the student maintains their GPA between 2.0 –
4.0.
4. Jose Marti Scholarship Challenge Grant Fund: This
scholarship is available to Hispanic students enrolled in their
senior year of high school. Applicants must be a Florida
resident, as determined by their postsecondary institution,
cannot be in default of any other loans or grants, be of Spanish
culture, have earned a 3.0 un-weighted cumulative grade point
average by the end of their seventh semester in high school, and
enroll as a degree-seeking student at an eligible Florida
postsecondary institution. This scholarship is merit and heritage
based.
5. Robert C. Byrd Honors Scholarship Program: This program,
which is federally funded and state-administered, is designed to
recognize exceptionally able high school seniors who show
promise of continued excellence in postsecondary education.
The Department awards funds to state education agencies
(SEAs), which make scholarship awards to eligible applicants.
Students receive scholarships for college expenses. Scholarships
are merit and leadership/involvement based.
6. Florida Fund for Minority Teachers: This scholarshipis a
collaborative performance-based scholarship program for
African-American, Hispanic-American, Asian-American, and
Native American students. The participants in the program
include Florida’s Florida College System institutions and its
public and private universities that have teacher education
programs. This scholarship is merit based and is also awarded to
high school students who want to pursue a career in education.

10. 7. Lucille E. Snaith Memorial Scholarship Endowment: This
scholarship open to eligible Honors College students at Florida
International University; however, priority consideration will be
given to incoming freshmen. To be eligible, students must be
either an entering or current Honors College student in good
standing (minimum 3.3 cumulative GPA) and have financial
need as determined by the Financial Aid Office. Students must
have a history of outstanding academic performance, and
provide evidence of motivation, character, and potential. The
student must also be a resident of Miami-Dade or Broward
County and have U.S. citizenship. Scholarships are renewed
each year provided that the recipient remains a full-time Honors
College student in good standing, makes satisfactory progress
towards a bachelor’s degree, maintains a 3.3 cumulative GPA at
FIU, and that funds are available in the Endowment.
8. Florida Incentive Scholarship: This scholarship is merit based
and it is awarded to high school students entering any college or
university in Florida. This scholarship can be renewed yearly as
long as the student receiving the award again maintains their
GPA higher than 3.0.
9. Bright Futures Scholarship: This scholarship is perhaps the
most well-known scholarship available for Florida students.
This scholarship is merit and need based and it is awarded to
high school students entering any college or university in
Florida. There are two variations of the scholarship, one which
covers 75% of your college credits and another that covers
100%. Factors such as SAT/ACT scores, GPA, financial need,
etc are taken into consideration when awarding students.
10. Talented Twenty Program: This scholarship is awarded to
high school students who ranked in the top 20% of their class
after their seventh semester. This scholarship is purely merit
based and students must submit their ACT/SAT score in order to
be considered.
There are a vast number of scholarships that are available to
high school students entering a college or university. For more
information visit the following website:

11. http://www.collegegrants.org/florida-college-grants.html.
Marketing
An inexpensive and still very relevant form of marketing that
we recommend The Judith Squillante Foundation uses is social
media. Social media can help reach and engage the audience
needed, create momentum and build relationships with other
non-profit foundations. Creating a web page, subscribing to the
most popular social networks such as, Facebook, Instagram,
Twitter, LinkedIn.. “Nonprofits should spend time on social
media to empower supporters to take their message and run with
it” Danielle Brigida.
The whole reason nonprofits should spend time on social media
is to empower supporters to take their message and run with it. I
think figuring out a way to embrace this can be difficult but
totally worth it in the end. Social media helps bridge the divide
so donors can see their impact and feel connected to the mission
day to day.
Conclusion
Though in the big picture we were not able to create a
relationship with the majority of the foundations we
communicated to, after an adaptation to our communication
strategy, we were fortunate enough to receive response and
valuable input from 2 sources.
Scarlett Montenegro, Miami Children’s Initiative & The Posse
Scholarship Foundation
Our first response was from a former high school classmate and
acquaintance of one of the group members: Scarlett
Montenegro, Chief Executive Assistant at The Miami Children’s
Initiative. He communicated with her and was able to meet with
her in person to ask some questions recommended by Jason for
knowledge on the specifics of how MCI operates how they
attract and motivate Children and some more knowledge on the

12. tutoring side of their processes. Further Scarlett is a Posse
Scholarship recipient (a scholarship in which Jason had interest
to incorporate with his foundation). Scarlett was also able to
answer some questions about the process to obtain this
scholarship and about her time as a Posse Scholar. Scarlett’s
input to our questions for her can be found on the attachments
below. Double click on the squares.
Dr. Donnie Hale Jr.,The Education Effect at Booker T.
Washington High school
We also received a response from Dr. Donnie Hale Jr., the
Director of a non-profit foundation known as the Education
Effect at Booker T. Washington. From there we scheduled an
interview with Dr. Hale to discuss the purpose and operation of
the foundation. During the interview he gave us a little
background on himself and the Education Effect program that
he runs. Below is a basic summary of the foundation with its
mission, vision, and goals.
Brief overview of the Education Effect at Booker T. Washington
“The Education Effect – BTW is created to support and
challenge students to acquire the knowledge, skills and
disposition needed to effectively graduate high school and
enroll and succeed in credit-bearing, first-year courses at a two-
year or four-year postsecondary institution. Furthermore, it is
developed to support the individual needs of students’ as they
reach and grow to their full potential by infusing extra people
and a culture of high expectations. Additionally, the academic
enrichment and educational opportunities provided by The
Education Effect – BTW are focused on 21st century academic
and workforce readiness skills such as critical thinking, problem
solving, decision-making, teamwork, collaboration,
communication, self-direction/personal responsibility,
creativity, invention, and information technology. “

13. The VISION of The Education Effect – BTW is to educate,
engage, empower, and serve all members of the community for
academic achievement, social success and college completion.
The MISSION is to align university expertise, resources and
evidenced based intervention strategies in order to address
educational needs of students. The Education Effect will
promote college and career readiness through intentional
academic enrichment opportunities, sociocultural
activities, engagement of university resources, development of
community partnerships that provide mentoring and guidance,
and programs that promote higher education learning and
access.
The intended GOALS are to increase the number of
underrepresented students to successfully complete high school
and college.”
After meeting in person with Donnie, he was very impressed by
both our group’s efforts to help Jason in finding a partnership.
He was enthusiastic to communicate with Jason in order to find
some common grounds between their two foundations and
potentially create a partnership in which both foundations can
support and benefit from each other. Below is an excerpt of
communication between Jason and Donnie.
In conclusion, though we received our fair share of denials
from other non-profits in our efforts to find potential partners
for The Judith Squillante Foundation, we ultimately were able
to find representatives from a few foundations to give us
valuable information about how their Foundations operate, some
of their struggles and how they have grown. We do strongly
believe that this information will help Jason deeply as he is still
in the start-up phase of his Foundation. Further, we were also
able to find one potential partner for Jason in Donnie Hale and
The Education Effect at Booker T, Washington High School.
This was something that originally seemed very improbable for

14. us to accomplish and now it is a stepping-stone towards
something that can be very beneficial to both parties; The Judith
Squillante Foundation and The Education Effect. To this point
both sides seem interested and enthusiastic about the possibility
of a partnership. From our end we hope our efforts are good
enough to help Jason form this partnership, and allow his
foundation to prosper going forward.
Questions for MCI
1) From what point to what point do they work with these
children? (From a time line approach and progress
requirements.)
MCI Works intensively with children. Children visit MCI’s
Community Space every day after school. MCI’s Community
Space is right in the Annie Coleman Public Housing. We have a
unit for ourselves. It is a safe space for children and family to
come and learn, read and play. We have an activities calendar
and offer activities for the children and families every day.
Children come after school and receive homework assistance;
younger children with no homework have a book read to. After
homework help, those in after school programs such as in the
Miami Music Project, Skate Boarding, Football, Cheerleading
etc. depart. The children in no programs stay with a family
advocate who has a structured activity planned. These activities
range from sports (basketball, kickball) Arts and Crafts, Movie,
etc. All of our activities have some sort of learning
incorporated. We also provide our children with snacks.
2) What age do they start?
Our strategy is called Cradle to Career. We literally work with
them from birth. We place all of our babies in Early Child Care
centers.
3) How do they define the children who are able to be part of
this foundation?
The children in our programs reside in MCI’s impact zone. The
impact zone is four blocks in Liberty City that were identified

15. to have the neediest families. MCI’s goal is to expand to the 29
blocks in Liberty City. I will attach a map of Liberty City and
our impact zone to this email.
4) How do they find these children?
When MCI began the CEO and staff literally went knocking
door by door to meet each family and child. MCI does family
assessments on each household to identify who lives there and
what the needs are.
5) Do the children (or guardian(s)) “sign” some document(s) as
part of the incorporation process?
Yes parents’ sign consent forms for all assessments, programs,
fieldtrips and photo waivers.
6) Are there requirements the children have to meet to continue
to be in this program?
a. If so, what are they?
For sports there are grade requirements. For all other programs
there are not. We do whatever it takes to make sure a child stays
in a program
7) Can a child be removed from this program for any reason?
a. If so:
i. what are they? The only reason would be violent
behavior at program and program leaders decides to remove
child.
ii. What is the “warning” policy? We give child and
parent a verbal warning
iii. Once removed, can a child be allowed in? Yes
1. If so, how? Noticing change in behavior
b. If not, why does the program not have requirements the
children have to meet to stay in the program?
8) If they are working with children at remote locations, I
would try to understand how they manage the logistics of it.
Does MCI operate like a YMCA, but more hands on?
I am not sure how the YMCA operates but I do not think so

16. because we don't provide the after school programs we connect
with programs that already exist and bring them to the block.
We also work very hands on with all the families in our block
not just the children. In general we link our community
members to services in the community.
How do the kids get to the Community Space?
The kids walk to the community space. The community space is
a unit in the public housing so they all live around us. Our
community space is within the four blocks we target. It's on the
map I sent you. I can resend it if the community space isn't
marked on the map.
Do any MCI representatives interact with teachers from the
kids’ schools? How often? If so, what are the expectations?
Each MCI staff is an advocate for a family. Each advocate is
responsible for making sure that parents attend a teacher parent
conference and we encourage our staff to also attend. MCI also
works closely with Charles R Drew and Brownsville Middle we
work closely with the Principal at both schools and some of the
teachers and staff. We interact with the Principal at Charles R
Drew in a weekly basis.
What proactive involvement does the MCI program have with
their education? How in depth is it?
MCI gets a report card consent form from each child on the
block signed by the parents. Then we make sure to get the
report cards of all the kids on the block. We make sure that
students who are failing are placed in tutoring. We also make
sure that each advocate is making sure that each child in their
family is academically successful.
In addition to staying out of trouble, are there any academic
requirements for a child to maintain in order to stay in the
program? Will MCI continue to support a consistent low
academic performing student?
We will always support all of our children. We never give up on
them. MCI believes in doing whatever it takes to make sure that
each child is successful. We do a lot of incentives in order to

17. make sure that our children are doing well in school and not
missing class. We are currently promising students a Disney trip
for summer 2015 but in return we need letter grade
improvement in two classes and perfect attendance from now
until the end of the year. If they're in middle school or high
school we are also asking for community service hours and for
parents we also have a list of requirements.
How many children are in the program at any one time on
average? MCI serves about 200 Children.
Each after school program has a different amount of students. It
varies on the age and grade.
What is the % of children in MCI that go on to college?
Our goal is 100% but MCI is relatively new and understand that
we are currently far away from that goal. Our current main
focus are the younger children.
Lastly, can you give me a more robust understanding of how
MCI's operations and how it works in relation to the tutoring or
teaching side of it?
With tutoring we are partnered with Reserve Tutoring that hires
retired professionals. We pay the, for their service. Each tutor
tutors about 5 children. In total we currently have 40 children in
tutoring. We determined those students by their grades.
Questions for Posse
1) Is there a representative of the actual Posse foundation she
can connect you with?
That representative will be able to provide you information and
a perspective from the opposite direction of your friend,
however, both perspectives are very valuable.
You can email Benjamin Bingman-Tennant [email protected]
he’s the program director.
2) What elements of the foundation provided her the most
support?
My posse trainers, Posse mentors on campus and my 9 posse
sisters.
3) Which elements helped her the most?

18. My posse mentor
4) Which elements/aspects were actually negatives about the
experience/process? Nothing was negative about my experience.
5) How did she learn of it initially?
My cap adviser in high school nominated me and told me about
it.
6) What did she have to do in order to qualify?
I had to participate in three interviews (the first was a DAP
interview with 800 other students, second a one on one and
third was with the college) and provide my transcripts, writing
sample and other documents.
7) What requirements where there to ensure she continued to
earn what the foundation offered?
None, as long as I showed effort.
8) Are there any documents she can provide you without
breaking any confidentiality issues?
What documents would you like to see?
9) What does the foundation do to maintain contact with her (if
any?)
Meet with my posse and mentor every week, meet with just my
Posse mentor every other week for one hour for the first two
years, posse Miami trainers visit campus every semester for a
check in, phone calls with posse trainer whenever I want, Posse
plus retreat every spring and my last two years posse mentor
and trainer were just available whenever I needed them, no
scheduled meeting.
10) Has she done anything for the Posse foundation since
graduating from it?
a. If not, what could they have done to potentially create that
drive in you to give back?
b. If she has, what has she done?
I have donated financially and I have participated in every
panel/workshop they’ve invited me to. I’ve also represented
Posse in board meetings with prospective college partners.
i. What created that desire to give back afterwards?
The incredible experience I had as a Posse scholar. I want

19. other students to have the same support I did.
ii. Was it required, or her choice? If her choice, was it
recommended, or addressed in anyway by the foundation? If so,
how?
Yes recommended and suggested. Once you become alumni, you
join the posse alumni association and there are meetings, emails
and events where alumni participation and donation are asked.
Mission Statement
Our mission is to help Jason and Mark Squillante’s non-profit
organization: The Judith Squillante Foundation by acting as a
liaison to other non-profit organizations. We will research and
communicate with the other non profits in an effort to gather
intel on their history, operations, and challenges. This will all
serve as guidance to the Judith Squillante Foundation forits’
development and prosperity in the future. An ultimate goal
would be to successfully find another non-profit organization to
partner with The Judith Squillante Foundation”.
The Judith Squillante Foundation’s mission is “to help
underprivileged kids to succeed academically, while also
preparing them for life.” By establishing relationships with
other non profit organizations/corporations, we can help by
provide opportunities to raise funds and to receive goods and
services for the underprivileged children. Further, with these
organization’s support, The Judith Squillante Foundation will
receive help in the development of its inception.
Non-profits we contacted:
· “Take stock in children”
· “The Miami Foundation”
· “The Irie Foundation”
· “Take stock in children Miami”
Due to the lack of responses we received in many of our
attempts, we also began developing an alternative on how to
contact other non-profits through social media. Organizations
can use today’s communication technologies to influence their

20. supporters.
For the leadership program, which non-profits can we leverage?
Collaboration and partnerships raise the importance of
leveraging, using one source of funds to get a commitment from
another funding source is our best desire to help and benefit
unprivileged children succeed academically.
By showing a realistic mission, it will create sustainability with
other non-profits. We will create opportunities to help both
foundations.
In order to establish relationship with other non-profits we
developed a plan:
· Tell engaging and personal stories to connect people to
their fundraiser in an authentic way.
· Set realistic fundraising goals.
· Develop a plan to promote the fundraiser and rally personal
networks via multiple channels
· Demonstrate impact
· Keep the community updated on the fundraising progress
through various channels
· Brand the fundraising page
· Stand out by making the fundraiser unique and fun to get
people’s attention
Which non-profits can we partner with to get the Foundation’s
“Graduating” children a scholarship?
Nonprofits can support management to cut costs, improve their
efficiency, and improve their sustainability. By establishing an
innovation program that promotes open debate and critical
thinking among stakeholders and nonprofits, can discuss ideas
and formulate paths to reach both objectives.
We have chosen three non-profit foundations to help Mr
Squillante to develop this project
When partnering with others to acquire scholarships for our
children, can arrangements be made to “guarantee” our
successful children a scholarship if they hit certain goals?
Other ways to find partnerships

21. Non-profits we unsuccesfully contacted:
· “Take stock in children”
· “The Miami Foundation”
· “The Irie Foundation”
· “Take stock in children Miami”
Due to the lack of responses we received in many of our
attempts, we also began developing an alternative on how to
contact other non-profits through social media. Organizations
can use today’s communication technologies to influence their
supporters. Its been a hard process trying to get other
partnerships.
Social media can helpreach and engage the audience needed,
create momentum and build relationships with other non-profit
foundations. Creating a web page, subscribing to the most
popular social networks such as, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter,
LinkedIn..